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Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From e- (intransitivizer) + wontö (“to clothe”).
Verb
ewontö
- (intransitive, patientive) to put on clothes, to get dressed
- Synonym: ensöma'tö
Etymology 2
Verb
ewontö (transitive)
- to refuse to hand (something) over or surrender (something)
- to defend (someone or something) (+ -uwö: against, from)
- 2008, speaker ‘Anl’ from Boca de Piña (ConvChur.016), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, page 144:
Unwa kowontaato yadanawiuwö yeichü.- She defends us there (in the city) from the way of being of the non-natives.
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ewontö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 138, 402: “w-e-wo:ntö-nö ¶ to dress oneself […] wewontönö - to dress”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “wewontənə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021